Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:05:26 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Enable full randomization on i386 and X86_32. | From | Kees Cook <> |
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> wrote: >> Arjan, or other folks, can you remember why x86_32 disabled mmap >> randomization here? There doesn't seem to be a good reason for it that >> I see. > > > for unlimited stack it got really messy with threaded apps.
Seems like it'd only cause problems for really really giant processes? (I think it's telling that the other 32-bit archs don't disable ASLR in this case...)
> anyway, I don't mind seeing if this will indeed work, with time running out > where 32 bit is going extinct... in a few years we just won't have enough > testing on this kind of change anymore.
Sounds good. Ingo, can you pull this in and we can try it for -next?
-Kees
-- Kees Cook Chrome OS & Brillo Security
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